Quotes About Struggle

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

I don't want to die without any scars.